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Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and the Provision of Public Goods
Kölle, Felix - 2011
We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
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Access to Banking Services and Poverty Reduction : A State-Wise Assessment in India
Bhandari, Amit K. - 2013
Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...
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India's Increasing Skill Premium : Role of Demand and Supply
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
groups have not experienced any significant increase. This paper uses the demand and supply model with imperfect substitution …. Relative supply has played an important role not only determining the extent of increase in wage premium, but also its timing …. The increase in relative supply of tertiary workers during 1983-1993 offset the demand shift, limiting the wage premium …
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Health and Economic Development : Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2011
This paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction of public health care systems in different countries, which is the random outcome of a political...
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Incentive Pay and Performance : Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm
Bogaard, Hein - 2013
We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern …
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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922443
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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2018
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible difference-in-differences models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our...
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Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy : The Spanish Case
Simon, Hipolito - 2011
We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We …, immigrants experience a strong occupational downgrading in Spain when compared to their origin countries. This fact is due to the …
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Is There Discriminatory Mortgage Pricing Against Immigrants in the Spanish Lending Market?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2011
In this paper, we investigate whether evidence of discriminatory treatment against immigrants in the Spanish mortgage market exists. More specifically, we test whether, ceteris paribus, immigrant borrowers tend to be charged with higher interest rates on their mortgages than their Spanish born...
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Wage Differentials between Native and Immigrant Women in Spain : Accounting for Differences in the Supports
Nicodemo, Catia - 2011
The objective of the study is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain taking into account …
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